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...erupted after four white Bade County officers were acquitted of various charges in the beating death of a black businessman. What one Justice Department official calls "the undeclared war between police and minorities" is a contributing factor in outbreaks of violence within the past year in such cities as Wichita, Kans., and Birmingham...
...Wichita Falls, 117°. Dallas, 113°. Little Rock, 105°. Oklahoma City...
...Doppler weather radar stations are built in the tornado-prone regions. In fact the Norman lab's Doppler, propitiously located in the heart of the tornado belt, has already shown its future value. On April 10 last year, the radar spotted the evolving tornado-producing storm that devastated Wichita Falls, Texas...
There have been other tragic air accidents involving American athletes. In 1961, 18 figure-skating stars, bound for the world championships in Prague, were killed in the crash of a Sabena jet near Brussels. In 1970, 30 members of the Wichita State University football team died when their chartered jet hit a mountainside in Colorado. Seven years later, 14 University of Evansville basketball players, returning home from a game in Nashville, died when their DC-3 crashed on takeoff...
Though forecasters had issued warnings an hour in advance, 47 people died and hundreds of others were injured last April when a monstrous tornado demolished large sections of Wichita Falls, Texas. Curious about just how the casualties had occurred, a team of epidemiologists, most of them from the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, decided to investigate. Their study, published in Science, shows that 26 of the deaths and 30 of the most serious injuries occurred in motor vehicles. Most of these victims had tried to outrace the storm, many of them apparently influenced by longstanding federal guidelines that urge...